New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-14

issued ordering manufacturers and other employer
OF labor 10 dismiss without delay ali their dermai
workmen and rendering necessary the saie within
limited time of all estates and properly owned III
Russia by foreigners. Besides forming part OF wy
reserves, almost every German who has served makes
1t point OF belonging to ono OF inc numerous
military associations which, somewhet resembling
the Grand Army Of the Republic in the united states
constitute an important factor in German affairs Inc
Deutsche kriegersbund alone has . roster 0,
6OOO 600 names of old soldiers all of them fit and
ready for fight; and dsposss OF an enormous revenue
and immense in huence.
The recent trials for high treason at Leipzig show,
however, that the Germans by no means the only
offenders In the matter Of espionage. Seldom II ever
Las a more scathing denunclation been uttered
against neighbvrng country than that issued by the
Supreme Court OF the German Empire against INC
French Government in pronouncIng sentence on
Klein and Grebert, the acc0mplices aud frionds oi
Police Commissary Schnsebeles. SO bitter was inc
Ian guage used the occasion by the presiding Juus
that Ambassadorial rela lions between the wv
countries have been suspended, Count Mu nster
having left Paris and NJ. Herbctte Berlin on long
leaves OF absence from which there Is no prooaDi''
that they will return. From verbatim report Vi
the proceedings of the trial it appears that ool"
Schnaebeles and Klein, who IL Frenchman, MADE
the most complete confessions. 1t Is sho"n that
during the past five years Klein has been In the haet
OF furnishing the French Government with drawings
OF all the ortitcations and defences OF maycnce'
Strashuig, Metz aud several other great fortresses
In this he assisted by Grebert, who Is builder
aud surveyor by trade. What however, chiefly eI-
asperae the German authorities Was that hien hsd
succeeded in transmitting TO the French ar Depart
correct information and details concerning tbe
secret system OF underground electric wires "hlch
place all the various German fOrtfesses on inc
eastern and western frontiers in telegraph'o COM
mrnicato with one another. As the main purpose
OF III csc wIres which we're laid at enormous ex-
psnse was to insure secret and undisturbed conmun
cation in times OF war; the whole system will now
have to be changed II that object Is to be attainfd
KIein's correspondence with the Frsnch Government
was carried on partly through Police Commisssry
Schnaeoeles at Nancy, partly through d. hitscn-
auer, who holds the post OF chief CT the whole IRON
tier police, while in cases lie forwarded the H.
formation OBJ aimed direct TO Colonel Vincent at farls
Colonel Vincent who Is ono OF the cleyerest oiceIs
OF the Headquarters staff OF the French army Is inc
chief OF what's called tho Bureau de Rensegnements
at Paris Nomipally distinct from the War Once 1t
nevertheless is entirely dependent for its resources
on the large secret service fund which Is annually
placed at the disposal OF the Minister Of war, ana
tor which he 10 accountable to no one. colonel VIM
cents civilian colleague is NJ Picard who holds the
ank of VicsPresident OF the Council OF State IN
the French Government service. Responsible to no
except to the Minister OF War foi the time being
they in daily personal communication with MIN,
and il not de lure at any rate de faco the bureau 10
Ken egnements forms one OF the most important
organization is far from being perfect as that OF
the Berlin Intelligence Bureau" IL nevertheless
contrvos to secure good deal of very valuable inor-
nation from abroad. Government funetionaries OF
all ranks pressed into its servos and the Minister
OF the Interior IN VI. Goblets Cabinet was oonsidera-
bly, disgustad to find at the time OF the SchnaeDees
incident that fer months past al the frontier officials
and other members OF his department had been ex-
ecuting the orders OF Colonel Vincent, OF Nj. Picard
and OF General Boulanger In preference to his own.
What, however, the German High Court Ot Justice
particularly denounced was the manner IN when Inc
French Government officials seek to inycisle and
entce Germans into becoming traitors to their
country. The way 10 which the prisoner Grebert,
above mentioned, had been over by Police Com
mis- saries Feuricl and Schnaebeles was particularly
gross instance thereof In TACT, the prnci al occupa
ton OF the French Police Commissaries along the
frontier appears to have been to win over oy every
means ia their power German iunctiOnares soldiers
officers, and, in fact, everv German whom they con-
sdered light be of to them IN tho object they had
In hand The following list published at Leipzig by
order of the Supreme Court Of the Expire, shows
among other things that their efforts have not been
altogether without fruit:
SENTENCES PRONOUNCED on FRENCH SPIES
BY GERMAN TRIBUNALS.
The French naval officer Reclns, arrested and cou-
demned to five weeks mprisonu.ent for having been
found In the OF taxing drawings OF the iortiusa-
tons of kied and Stralsund in 1878.
az
demned TO ten years imprisonment lie ciniessed
that he was acting behalf OF the French frontier
/ olice sommissary at AuduH-e-Roman (lo1jl
DR.. Wedderburn Bishop, sentenced to tn &c years
i'm prison tor MEETING soldiers 10 treason 1851
Lieutenant lissot, of the French Army, sentenced
at May ence to three years imprisonment IN lso2.
Baron de Graillet, a DutchmaD and Baron Won
u German officer sentenced at Munich 10
five years imprisonment tlS,2)
krazewski, the Polish poet, sentenced OF Dresden
to three years uprIsonment, while his accomplce,
Ne sch.
penalty OF nine years solitary confinement.
Jsnsens. DutchmRn ami his two grown up sous
Then accomplish, Rheil, German. cashier OF the
Saving. Bank at Vessel, received a sentence OF three
years Imprisonment (lsSo)
Muss and Knipper, the one Frenchman, the other
a German, arrested at Cologne and sentenced To q
short term OF imprisonment lloo5
Schneider, German sentenced to five years i'm
prisoDment al Cologne.
Lieutenant Mesler OF the German Army. sentenced
to two years, lille the French General Miribrl and
and implicated IL the affair, requested TO leave
the country at once (lSoo.l
The French Jiicers Klein and Kulman, arrested at
Coblence md sentenced to short terms OF impnson-
ment 1881
Captain Sarant formerly OF the Danish Army, but
afterward ,t the principal and most trusted
o ihcias OF Colonel Vircents Bureau d. Renseigne.
ments al Paris sentenced in 1885 TO twelve years
solitary confinement Captain Sarant has, however,
Just been liberated III consideration OF his having
given the German Government most valuable !niOr'
alton concerning the entire working and organ,za-
ton OF the Paris Bureau de Renseis nements.l
The German journalist Proh sentenced TO nine
years SOLITARY cor tnement His accomplish Schwartz,
also German died suddenly during the trial, lsSG.)
Thomas, OF the principal foremen Of the I'm
pea Arsenal at Spandau, and nine OF his accomplces
each OF them 10 ten years solitary conhne
meDt IISo6)
The French officer Leteler, sentenced to short
term Of imprisonment at Carlsruhe, (lso6
The French General Fay, arrested at Posen and
requested leave the country. Count Zamoiska his
host at whose country seat he staying, like
wise arrested and expelled from Germany by the
police at a lew hours notice.
nERANTE THE BALLET MA SfER.
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